Year 3! Our yard is almost exclusively native plants, vegetables, and fruits (so many raspberries!)
by HikerStout
Year 3! Our yard is almost exclusively native plants, vegetables, and fruits (so many raspberries!)
by HikerStout
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Midwest, zone 5b. We bought this house during Covid, when it had a mostly traditional lawn. I spent a couple years ripping out landscaping fabric, hostas, and turf grass. After a run-in with the city, we went scorched earth and removed the entire lawn.
Today, it’s mostly native plants, with nine raised beds for vegetables and a hedge of raspberries. We added irrigation for the fruits and veggies this year, which has been a huge help. We were even featured on the city garden walk!
This is gorgeous! I run out of adjectives to describe everyone’s yards lol but seriously, this looks right out of a catalog.. and I love the iris and the fact you incorporated perennial fruit . Man, it would be nice to have you as a neighbor🤣
You should be very proud, this looks great. Also you have a good house for it with a color that compliments the plants well. (Yellow and purple are complimentary colors and your house reflects that).
Do you get lots of different bugs?
Any favorite plants?
Jealous! I had to take out all of my raspberry plants due to the Invasive species Japanese Beetle. The raspberry plants seems to attract them and they ate EVERY flower.
Hoorah! This is the type of work and example that people should see and celebrate!
This is sooo beautiful. Thank you for blessing my eyes.
Oooo pics of the raspberries???
Stunning!! You’ve done a marvelous job!
Oooh nice! Aiming to do something similar with mine in the next few years!!
Beautiful! I bet the butterflies and bees love it there.
What flower is in the last pic? Beautiful garden btw!
House and yard envy activated!